Born Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Of all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man's…

— Thomas Wolfe

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

— Lord Chesterfield

“I now know from voracious reading and tireless research that most of my favorite quotes are just paraphrases from ancient philosophers like Socrates, Aristotle,…

— Jeff Burden

“The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a…

— Mary Stewart

“A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the…

— Valerio Massimo Manfredi

“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when explored with…

— Ciaran Carson

“We should be familiar with the great histories, the great biographies. We should be familiar with the great success stories, the great love stories,…

— Sterling W. Sill

“It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves…

— Lois Lowry

“In literature, as in Life, one is often astonished by what is chosen by others.”

— Andre Malraux

Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective…

— Richard Lederer

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

— James Russell Lowell

“He had thought, no doubt, from the day he was born, much more than he had acted; except indeed that he remembered thoughts--a few…

— Henry James